Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2008-06-24-Speech-2-024"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2008-06-24"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Results of the European Council meeting of 19 and 20 June 2008 in Brussels - Slovenian Presidency's term of office (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20080624.3.2-024"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2008-06-24-Speech-2-0252
lpv:speaker	lp:Mary Lou McDONALD2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, I have listened very carefully to this debate, and should make it clear at the very outset that Ireland is not in the throes of an identity crisis. Ireland understands itself very clearly as a European nation, at the heart of a European project, but Ireland has also taken a strong view, expressed by its people, as to what that project must be. That project must be based, first and foremost, on democratic values. That project must unambiguously protect public services and workers’ rights. That project must genuinely be one which is in the interests of international peace and stability, not a project for militarisation. The Irish people have said that in a very particular way and as a neutral Member State. We have heard a lot of talk about identity. There is one common factor that binds European peoples together, which is not just their valuing of democracy, but a demand for democratic values in the Union. When I hear that the Irish vote is to be respected, on the one hand, but that ratification must continue on the other – that Lisbon must be salvaged above all else – then I have to sit and wonder. All eyes were on Ireland in the course of the referendum campaign, and now all eyes are on the European institutions and the European leaderships. Will you or will you not, at this moment of democratic truth, listen to the people? Ireland does not require a tap on the head or clarification of the existing treaty. What it wants and needs is a new deal. I believe the Irish people are speaking for Europeans across the Member States in making that demand."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Sinn Féin (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 substitute; LIBE (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation for relations with Switzerland, Iceland and Norway and to the European Economic Area (EEA) Joint Parliamentary Committee (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 member_of_the_bureau; EUL/NGL (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; EMPL (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Armenia, EU-Azerbaijan and EU-Georgia Parliamentary Cooperation Committees (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Mary Lou McDonald (GUE/NGL ). –"1

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